Nice shots Dean.

Stampe is G-BIMO.

A few more from me.

Are you sure you don’t mean 1981, I went to that one.

anyone got any ideas why their’s a VC10 sitting at Boscombe? is it based there?? i saw it on thursday and friday and was curious, never saw it the last few times ive passed

Probably ZD242 which arrived there 29/8/08. WFU as far as i know.

u mean 5 fis :p

great shots tho….love the last one

Thanks, and yes I did mean five.:)

Didn’t the Tornado F2 make it’s debut in 1985.

The Spitfires were,
AR501
AB910
ML407
MH434
P7350
RM689
PM631
G-FIRE

Ollie: I think the pics of ‘631’ in the MARTSU move are of XN929 en-route to Honington approx 1970 for use as a ground instructional airframe. By approx 1972 its cockpit was cut off and taken to 237 OCU Ground School for use as a cockpit trainer. The later ‘631’ being craned onto the Bark Royal was another aircraft (forget the serial just now).

Your Dit – one of our aircraft is missing – is correct. I was at Honington at the time (approx ’72) and when 809 disembarked they had one less aircraft than what they started with. I think the one which went over the side was XT269 but don’t quote me.

Must say that this thread has thrown up some spectaular photos the like of which I have not seen before. Has anyone got any pics of XV333 (or was it 332?) when it had the 1,000-pounder dropped into its cockpit?

I believe XT269 went over the side on the day i was born 15/2/72.

The red and grey one is XE587.